Growing Perennial Foods: A field guide to raising resilient herbs, fruits, and vegetables

Growing Perennial Foods: A field guide to raising resilient herbs, fruits, and vegetables

17.99

Written by Acadia Tucker, Illustrated by Krishna Chavda

Release Date: February 2019 | AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW!

Acadia Tucker’s long love affair with perennial foods has produced this easy-to-understand guide to growing and harvesting them. A regenerative farmer who is deeply concerned about global warming, Tucker believes there may be no better time to plant these hardy crops.

Perennials can weather climate extremes, promote healthy soil, mitigate drought conditions, and thrive without chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Many can be harvested year round. They taste good, pack lots of nutrients, and require little tending. In short, the world is a better place with more perennials in it and this book intends to get us there.

Tucker inspires action by first laying the groundwork for tending an organic, regenerative garden. She highlights the 6 steps she recommends gardeners take to help perennial foods thrive. But most of the book is dedicated to profiles of popular perennial herbs, fruits, and vegetables, with explicit instructions on how to plant, grow, and harvest them.

Growing Perennial Foods is illustrated with dozens of pen & ink drawings and ends with a short chapter on frequently asked questions. And since this is a field guide, each profile gives readers enough space to write in any additional notes.

While designed for gardening novices, this book is also for experienced gardeners who want to grow more resilient crops, and could use a little guidance.

Growing Perennial Foods is a companion guide to Growing Good Food: A citizen’s guide to backyard carbon farming, which is also written by Acadia Tucker and set to publish in late Spring 2019. Both are Growing Good Food Guides, part of book series on sustainable and organic gardening published by Stone Pier Press.

A U T H O R & I L L U S T R A T O R

Acadia Tucker

author

Acadia Tucker is a farmer and writer. Her interest in growing food has led her to start a four season organic market garden in Washington, map endemic plant species in the Channel Islands, and complete plant surveys in the Peruvian rainforest. She completed a Masters in Land and Water Systems at the University of British Columbia and graduated from Pitzer College with a degree in Environmental Science. Acadia lives in New Hampshire and, when not writing, grows hops to support locally sourced craft beer in New England.

Krishna Chavda

illustrator

Krishna is an illustrator and surface designer based in Hoboken, NJ. Inspired by her childhood in Tanzania, nature, and her Indian heritage, Krishna's illustrations and patterns are vibrant and playful. Some of her favourite things to draw are animals, plants, and puns. Learn more at www.nanuillustration.com.